ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a., to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
I Lit.: quid comedent? quid ebibent? Ter. Heaut. 255; so with comedere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20; id. Ps. 5, 2, 11; hirneam vini, id. Am. 1, 1, 276: poculum, id. Curc. 2, 3, 80: ubera lactantia, Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.: elephantos dracones, i. e. to suck their blood , Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf. sanguinem, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65: cum vino simitu imperium, to drink up , forget through drinking , Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (cf. in the simplex : bibere mandata, id. Pers. 2, 1, 3, v. bibo).—Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor ), Ov. F. 3, 533. —
B Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in , draw in , absorb : (fretum) peregrinos amnes, Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71: saniem (lana), id. 9, 38, 62, 134.—
II In gen., to waste in drink , squander , Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —
III Trop., to exhaust , remove , take away : spiritum meum, Vulg. Job, 6, 4.